NOAA GOES SATOPS Morning Report – March 25, 2003 Day 083

DMSP 

DMSP operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. 

POES 

POES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. 

GOES 

GOES operations were nominal over the past 24 hours. 

Eclipse operations for all spacecraft continue.  Eclipse schedules for GOES-8 and GOES-10 (which can be used to track the day-to-day image deletions due to KOZ and eclipse) can be found at: 
http://www.oso.noaa.gov/goes/koz-eclipse/koz-eclipse.htm 

GOES-12 remains in a test phase, in normal on-orbit mode, drifting at an eastward rate of ~0.33 degrees per day toward the GOES-East position where it will replace GOES-8 in April.  Routine SXI imaging is proceeding along with SXI test exposures.  At 1807Z on March 21, the GOES-12 schedule was suspended for magnetometer testing.  The normal imaging schedule was resumed at 1926Z on March 21. 

GOES-9 is currently at approximately 178.4 E drifting at a westward rate of ~0.723 degrees per day toward 155 E longitude where it will support the GMS-5 replacement mission in April. 

Major upcoming GOES milestones (Note: These dates are subject to change!) 

• April 1:  GOES-12 becomes operational GOES-East for imaging/sounding at 1815Z
• April 15:  GOES-9 removal from storage 
• April 16-19:  GOES-9 GVAR begins, INR startup with a 0.7 deg/day drift 
• April 22:  GOES-12 stops at 75 deg W; ancillary communication services (DCS, WEFAX, EMWIN, SAR) become operational. 
• April 24:  GOES-8 drift start westward from 75 W 
• April 25:  GOES-9 drift stop at 155 E